Designing Peace

Name: Designing Peace
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781942303329
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Designing Peace examines how design can contribute to peacebuilding and conflict resolution across the globe. It delves into innovative design projects and ideas that aim to address social issues and foster harmony in communities. Through a blend of stories, visuals, and expert insights, the book highlights the transformative power of design in creating a more peaceful world.
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This book may appeal to you if you are interested in how design can foster peace in communities worldwide. It explores innovative ways artists, designers, and architects use their crafts to address social change, offering inspiring examples of creativity driving positive societal impacts.

Designing Peace

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Designing Peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a future we want to live in and take action to create it now?

This book is an intersectional snapshot of the actions—culturally diverse and wide-ranging in scale—that are currently in play around the world. Offering perspectives on peace through essays, interviews, critical maps, project profiles, data visualisations, and art, this book conveys the momentum that design can gain in effecting a peace-filled future.

From activists, scholars, and architects to policymakers, graphic, game, and landscape designers, Designing Peace flips the conversation: peace is not simply a passive state signifying the absence of war; it is a dynamic concept that requires effort, expertise, and multi-dimensional solutions to address its complexity. Designers engage with individuals, communities, and organisations to create a more sustainable peace—from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures, to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation.

This publication aims to expand the discourse on what is possible if society were to design for peace.

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Designing Peace is lauded for its compelling dialogue among activists, designers, and theorists, and is richly illustrated. It addresses timely themes by showcasing how design can tackle global issues, with exhibitions highlighted as especially relevant against current geopolitical tensions, such as the conflict in Ukraine. The book is praised for depicting innovative solutions for peace, justice, and conflict resolution, underscoring design's role in community safety and creative confrontation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781942303329

Publisher: Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 June 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Illustration: 230 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Cynthia E. Smith
Contributions by John Paul Lederach
Preface by Darren Walker

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 220.0mm

Height: 300.0mm

Weight: 1100g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Cyntia E. Smith is an author and editor.

John Paul Lederach is a senior fellow at Humanity United and professor emeritus of international peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame. He is also the co-founder and first director of the Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. In 2019 he won the Niwano Peace Foundation Peace Prize. Dr. Lederach is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in the field of conciliation and conflict mediation. He has provided consultation for peacebuilding efforts in Somalia, Northern Ireland, Colombia, the Basque Country, the Philippines, Tajikistan, Nepal and in East and West Africa. He has also helped develop and lead hundreds of training programs in conflict transformation, mediation and international peacebuilding in 35 countries around the world.